Roller-bearing.



L. R. HEIM.

ROLLER BEARING.

PLICATION FILED MAR 6, 1915 AP 1,169,150. Patented Jan. 25, 1916'.

I/VVE/VTOR ATTORNEY 1 lT/VESSES:

LEWIS R. HEIlVI, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO THE BALL AN!) ROLLER BEARING? COMPANY, 0]? DANBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF GON- NECTICUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ROLLER-BEARING.

Patented J an. 25, 1916.

Application filed March 6, 1915. Serial No. 12,525.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lewis B. HEIM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danbury, county ,of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Roller-Bearings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to pro-. vide a roller hearing which will give a maximum amount of wear while at the same time the cost of construction shall be reduced to the minimum.

With these and other objects in view I have devised the novel roller hearing which I will now describe, referring to the ac companying drawing forming a part of this specification and using reference characters to indicate the several. parts.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my novel hearing, the top plate being partly broken away; Fig. 2 a section on an enlarged scale on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 3 a section on the line 33 in Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, and Fig. 4 is an elevation on a reduced scale illustrating a use of my novel bearing.

10 denotes a base, 11 a rotating part and 12 my novel bearing as a whole which is interposed between the base and the rotating part, a Shaft being indicated by dotted lines. It is of course wholly immaterial whether the bearing is used in the vertical, horizontal or in any intermediate plane.-

My novel bearing comprises essentially plates Band 14, rollers. 15 socketed therein and a hardened thrust ring 16 which takes the end thrust of the rollers in each group. Each plate is provided with a plurality of equidistant, undercut radial slots, corresponding slots in the. respective plates forming sockets 18 which receive and retain the rollers, portions of the peripheries of the rollers projecting on opposite sides of .the plates when assembled, as clearly shown. The rollers are hardened and are preferably made slightly convex at their ends. Each socket contains a plurality of rollers which are made of a number of different lengths, as shown, so that the rollers 1n the difierent sockets will break joints and avoid the possibility of the formation of grooves in either of the members between which the bearing is used, as for example base 10 and rotating part 11.

The number of different lengths or sizes of rollers is immaterial, likewise the number In assembling, the sockets are filled with rollers, care being taken that rollers of the same length do not correspond in position in contiguous sockets. The sockets are filled loosely, that is motion between the rollers,

.Each plate-is provided on its inner face with a circular groove 19, the corresponding grooves in the two plates forming a circular socket 20 which intersects the outer ends of of rollers in each socket, which may vary.

without appreciable lost the radial sockets and receives the thrust ring. This ring is hardened and takes the end thrust of the rollers in each group and also holds the plates concentric. .After as-' sembling, the plates are locked together by rivets or screws '21 which engage the plates between the radial. slots.

Having thus described my invention-I claim 1 p 1. A hearing of the character described comprising plates having undercut radial slots, corresponding slots in'the respective plates forming sockets, rollers of different lengths insaid sock s, said plates being provided 'on their iriiier faces with corresponding circular grooves which form a circular socket intersecting the outer ends of the radial sockets, and a thrust ring in the circular socket which takes the end thrust of the rollers. v

' 2. A hearing of the character described comprising plates having radial sockets formed therein and extending through the plates and a circular socket intersecting the ends of the radial sockets, rollers in the radial sockets and a thrust ring in the circular socket which takes the end thrust of the rollers. V

3. In a roller bearing the combination of plates having radial sockets and a circular socket intersectingthe outer ends of the radial In testimony whereof I afiix my signasockets sai d sockets being half formed in ture in presence of two witnesses. each plate, rollers in the radial sockets and LEWIS R. HEIM. a thrust ring in the circular socket which Witnesses:

5 receives the end thrust of the rollers and H, W. MEADE, holds the plates concentric. 4 E. M. CULVER.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the i Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 0." 

